Come on guys. Edwards was an electoral vote state away from being VP in 2004 and later a probable President in 2012. He was also a favorite of many insider Dems going into 2008 because faced with a Muslim and a Clinton he was the winner of the "none of the above" vote. His method of delivering the lies people want to hear is a story in itself. Then he forgot to keep his pants zipped up.

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,Where all the treasure of thy lusty days; To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.

Shakespeare would have to do a little rewriting, with an eye to including a twin, a mistaken identity, an ironic death of the wrong person. Also the characters would have to learn something and change.

It's hard to imagine a bardified, Edwards-themed play as anything other than a kind of MacBird parody. Edwards seems to lack the capacity for self-knowledge, otherwise known as having a conscience, that is essential to making a Shakespearean play work.

I didn't read the Andrew Young book, but there's a kind of reverse Othello-Iago vibe. Young is the honest courtier, and Edwards is full of evil plots and strategems that are carried out just for the sake of carrying them out. I get the sense that Edwards got more satisfaction from the debasement of his loyal follower than he did from the seduction of Rielle. Or anyway that what Young thought.....Shakespeare would not allow Edwards to speak in iambic pentameter.

A huge coffee-cup toast and thanks to you and that stadium's worth of fine Ohio residents!!!!!!!

***As for the bio project, if Shakespeare comes back to life and writes the movie, I'll consider watching it. Barring that, I think I'll just go back to forgetting that John Edwards exists.***

I've always wondered, how weird would it be to watch a movie about your own dad while he's a alive and you're still young? If you were in your 20s, as Edwards' oldest daughter is, would you go see it? Or at least rent it?

Well, to be fair to Sorkin, wasn't he behind "The American President" which was low propoganda on one hand, complete with liberal "common sense" that gee, if we only banned guns no one would be able to kill anyone! Peace forever! But all those criticisms aside, it was one of the better movies of that kind of theme.

Could you make something grand about this kind of thing? absolutely. will sorkin do it? i don't know. if it tries to make silky pony into a man of substance, i would say "no."

Johnny Edwards hit the wall we all must hit sooner or later between 45 and 55. He could not get away with being favored and promoted because he is youthful and attractive anymore. The trick used on him by Rielle was to easy. She told him that he was still youthful and attractive. Lady Edwards lost him when she started to make him look like he had an old wife. "You look marvelous Johnny" would be a good Title.

Except Rielle looks pretty old for her age. I remember when the pics were first published, it was kind of like the reaction that Al Gore got regarding his choice of masseuse. (i.e. "Would he really hit on that? I guess so.") Tipper stayed pretty attractive for a political wife - all things considered. She never got that bitter and/or brittle look.

Al Gore was once technically physically attractive, but his deeper vibe was always fussy and vain which is most definitely not attractive, especially in a man.

And then after he lost the election, he really went off into the Land of the Crazy-Eyed. Probably didn't help his mental condition in the long run that he was indulged by the likes of Steve Jobs and the Nobel Prize Committee.

John Edwards is the type of douche bag you hope would fail and then kick him in the fucking teeth because he's finally at an elevation that you can get your foot to reach his mouth with. Fuck him and fuck his life. He deserves none of it and I'm glad to see him disgraced.

In Shakespearean terms, John Edwards is Malvolio: a third-rate personality with nothing to offer, but who, due to an imagined invitation to greatness, fancies himself great and rides to an amusing fall. Exit spitting venom. But in Elizabethan drama terms, as a tragic character, you might think of him more as Marlowe's Edward II--a purely decorative, disastrously shallow thinker, prancing and flailing, surrounded by hard men and deeper players who had no scruples when it came time to rid themselves of him. In my view the Silky Pony was a minor character and not worthy of an entire play, but as a Malvolio-type bit he would have been an extra amusement in a comedy -- a tiresome distraction in a tragedy.